Train Sim World 7 - Discussion

Either way, whoever owns them also pulls the strings, and my point still stands that the development team themselves (the ones doing the work) won't be setting the release schedules.

 

Focus restructured and rebranded as Pullup shortly afterwards but kept the Focus name for their publishing subsidiary for the games they publish themselves but DTG are not part of that subsidiary, they are still a separate entity and still publish their own games. You can see the publisher is Dovetail Games on the TSW product pages on the stores. As parent company Pullup will call the shots financially.

 

Maybe 50% off the price on release day as a tangible apology and gesture of goodwill for everything thus far would suffice.

To be honest I’m so confused by what comes with what because the PR spin made it all so cloak and dagger, what is the actual benefit for a PS5 user downloading the free pack of TSW7 beyond AI conductor? Genuine question as I’m more concerned it’ll break my existing DLC at this rate

 

The cursor movement is big for me on PS5, for rushing ahead of the train for a fly-by and most importantly, switching points on the map.

 

Are we on console getting the fast speed external cam? If so I’ll download it just for that. I agree it makes fly by shots even easier to watch

 

That's what I've been led to believe. It's possible I've got it wrong, but pc could already do this I think.
Grab the freebie and see.

 

Yes PC already can but if it comes back to console, fantastic and it gets my full support

 

You'll need the free game if you want to purchase the future non-core routes going forwards.

 

And for any future updates to existing routes or the core.

 

From what I've gathered without any of the core routes and with consoles not having any of the advanced visual options, the only things console will get from a free upgrade will be AI Conductor, faster external cam movement, weather 'improvements' and TSR improvements. Genuinely one of the worst upgrades to date for things beyond the core routes, for consoles at least.

I will still stand by the fact that TSW 4's core upgrade, which was what brought us Free Roam, has yet to be beaten. With the way TSW is going I highly doubt it ever will be beaten. Adding such a brilliant core feature while simultaneously being the last full game release before consoles got blurry textures, mounting issues became so severe ect IMO makes TSW 4 a peak in the game's history which it might never reach again at this rate.

 

I speak as a Gen9 PS5 user here ..

But I fear with the console side of things, issues like blurring and other issues, have unfortunately become more complex and deep rooted in the game because they were never addressed 'as they happened' so to speak. I appreciate the work that is going on behind the scenes to attempt to remedy this situation and probably more work then we can imagine. But I think the time that has passed on not fixing them as they happened, has led to a snowball effect where as something that could have been a relatively simple fix in the first place, has become more complex as more DLCs and more titles of that game have come out. What could have been maybe a few small issues, has got more complex by other issues from other DLCs and titles, that also contribute to the same problem. It's a bit like having to untangle headphone wires that were left in your coat pocket, it starts off with one knot but then gets more and more complex... I'm beginning to fear there are becoming very limited options that can improve the outcome of Gen9 unfortunately. Don't get me wrong I'm still of the belief it is perfectly capable hardware, but the way the game has been engineered and optimised quite badly (speaking in historic terms, not including the remedy work that's going on) I just think options are beginning to run out to get it to work how we want it too.

It's certainly disheartening to see PC users get the best out of the game, and us console users on Gen9 get what feels like the 'mid range' version. Blurring is still an ongoing issue and I fear I think it's to late in the day to fix it without substantial and noticeable differences being made to the game. But whilst I admit it's disheartening to some extent, I've come to a level of acceptance about it now.

As a PS5 user, I'd maybe consider the leap to PC if a similar principle to Xbox was in place where I could use my Microsoft account to download TSW and all of its accompanying DLC to a PC (which is a very good system. If I've understood correctly that's how it works). The frustrating part is, I'm to far committed now with the PS5 now, so I cannot afford to buy all the UK DLC content again as my library is all on PS5. My hope now, is being patient pays off, and the hope that Gen10 consoles aren't to far on the horizon so I can make a leap and take my library with me to a more powerful system that may just enjoy the benefits PC users are benefitting from.

I've made my bed so I've got to lay in it and I'm far to committed financially and library wise to the console variation and I'd imagine that may be the case for many others. Gen10 is looking fairly promising at the moment, so I'm hoping the jump to newer hardware may just be enough to be able to game with full fat content.

 

Don’t ever say you’ve made your bed!!
You’ve bought a product in good faith mate and had the p taken out of you as have others for many a year, so don’t blame yourself at all!!!

 

Well, I'm not sure if AI conductor and TSR improvements are coming to old routes - has that been confirmed?

 

The AI conductor has been explained to be set up that it can work on all trains as a universal thing, where it might not work on older content is in situations where the driver is supposed to open the doors rather than the guard, on such trains the AI will just handle the whole thing anyway. TSR improvements is coming to old routes as the changes have been made to the core of how it works.

 

The fast cursor movement been a feature in tsw2/3 and 2020 but was removed for some reason in later games on consoles with no explanation as to why and yet this is being sold as a new feature? What a joke

 

I've been playing since Rush Hour time and it has never been fast.

 

But only with a keyboard. With a gamepad, everything is the same as on consoles.

 

https://forums.dovetailgames.com/th...ra-is-a-little-broken-classic-controls.73826/

https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/fast-free-mode-camera.81907/

 

Thanks and apologies. I was never aware of its existence.

 

I play on PC with controller and am really looking forward to actually being able to set up passing views, etc.

 

Yes, yes. Finally, there will be a bell on the gamepad.